Ground Truth
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Give The Blocking Tests A Release Of Their Own
When a specification carries a large blocking acceptance-test suite and a global safety gate, scoping the first release by feature value means every later release renegotiates the gate, and the blocking tests belong to no release. Building the gate as a component, shipped as its own release, gives everything after it something to be scoped against.
- · 7 min read
Milestones for a Buyer Who Cannot Read the Code: Make Each One Independently Checkable
A non-technical client cannot evaluate progress by looking at the work, so milestones built around internal stages leave them trusting rather than knowing. Structure the stages so each ends in something they can verify themselves, put the milestone that could end the project first, and put the one you control least in the smallest envelope.